EuSJA members assembled in Brno this past week.
And that’s a wrap! Over the weekend, EUSJA delegates met in Brno to brainstorm better serving our > 2500 members, discussing:
👥New board members
📢Even more ways to stay informed on what we offer
🧳Ideas for more study trips
Stay updated on EuSJA’s newsletter at eusja.org
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Fintan Burke
This week we welcome social media guest editor Fintan Burke, freelance science writer and president of the bsky.app/profile/eusj... European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations. Also a member of the Irish Science & Technology Journalists’ Association. #Guesteditor
#SpecialFocus: Ecosystem Management and Agricultural Green Development in Subtropical Regions
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#GuestEditor Prof. Jinshui Wu, Prof. Tony G. O’Donnell, Prof. Andrew Macrae, Prof. Hongsong Chen, Prof. Weiguo Cheng, Prof. Zhihong Xu, Prof. ZhengmiaoDeng
Since fall 2025, JASTJ has been creating short-form videos to spotlight key themes from its monthly meetings. Recent clips cover misinformation, rare earth strategies, and AI policy trends, helping make science journalism more visible and accessible to wider audiences.
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JASTJ's 6-month "Science Journalist Juku" training course combines online lectures with hands-on field reporting. In 2025 trainees visited NARO in Tsukuba to cover cutting-edge agricultural research tackling farming challenges. #GuestEditor
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In October 2025, JASTJ members visited NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Mitaka campus, giving journalists rare access to cutting‑edge astronomy, from Subaru’s PFS to ALMA’s black hole studies and 3D data visualization.
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JASTJ’s monthly meetings tackle key issues at the intersection of science and society such as: restoring Japan’s research capacity, the science behind elite baseball players, and global trends in AI policy. These sessions help strengthen accuracy and context in science reporting. #GuestEditor
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We welcome Kinu Stephanie MIYANO, from the Japanese Association of Science & Technology Journalists (JASTJ) as our Guest Editor of the Week!
#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
#endFTD and other dementia needs research and the scientists. BBC Today #Guesteditor on Boxing Day featured @tspiresjones.bsky.social and @clairedurrant1.bsky.social, funded in Edinburgh by #raceagainstdementia great story. #bbcjamesgalagher
#endFTD and other #dementia research featured on #BBC #Guesteditor on Boxing Day (7:35 GMT). @clairedurrant1.bsky.social
FASEJ gathering
FASEJ gathering
Today is FASEJ’s annual science communication conference + biggest science writers & editors gathering in Finland. This year’s theme: humor & its study and practice in communicating science and societal issues. We'll also choose new board members & next year’s chair. #GuestEditor
FASEJ study trips
FASEJ study trips
FASEJ study trips are for meeting experts and getting story ideas in Finland & abroad. This year we visited easternmost Finland to learn about local research, high-tech industry & war history. A trip to Stockholm included museums, botanical gardens & research talks. #GuestEditor
Freelancer Tiina Raevaara & Financial Times AI Correspondent Melissa Heikki honored as science journalists of the year by FASEJ. The Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland scicomm unit & Julia Korkman’s “Songs from the criminal record” performance also awarded. #GuestEditor
Our 40th year has included study trips, awards for communication and journalism, a tour of book fairs across Finland, and our annual science communication conference. FASEJ is active on Instagram @tiedetoimittajat, Facebook and at tiedetoimittajat.fi
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Hello from the Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists (FASEJ, or Tiedetoimittajat in Finnish)! This week we share what the association has been up to during our 40th anniversary year
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Read her thoughts on the new collection and subscribe to our Substack to receive the stories as they drop this weekend! 🕸🪦✨
#climatefiction #soilpunk #halloweenreading #shortstory #scifi #ecology #miniissue #tractorbeam #guesteditor
OK! I've responded to all 77 poetry submissions for the night. This was a lot of fun.
Now the cat is yelling at me to come to bed (he's such a little weirdo), so off to get five hours of sleep and then try to work in the morning.
Good night!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
... and if anyone wonders, I absolutely did flip a coin to decide between two submissions (I'll never tell which ones!).
Thought it was appropriate to the theme.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
(So if you didn't make it in this submission call, you'll know I'm the big dummy it was who made the decision.)
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
2/2
...and it looks like I managed to send out all the acceptances from Aaron's email address. Please forgive me, it's my first rodeo dealing with this "Submittable" bronco.
The declined messages I think are all correctly from my address.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
1/2
OK I have chosen eight submissions out of 78. There are a few that were really hard to decline, but that's what I signed up for.
Really really strong stuff; you'll each be hearing from me shortly!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
I'm absolutely appalled that I am deciding against otherwise-great poems because of a single word I don't like buried in the third or fourth line.
I can't stop myself; I don't know what to say. Please come for me with pitchforks and torches.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Lots of Tarot and cats appearing in submissions, which I'm 100% a fan of.
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I don't know if the loose cannons in charge of HAD will ever let me do this again, but if they do I'm going to specifically ask poets to send in more than one piece.
I just love seeing little gangs of poems stroll in the door together.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
More than halfway through now — I may get to bed at a halfway decent hour in spite of myself!
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2/2
I will have everyone know: Sometimes I am certain, three our four lines into a submission, that I will not be selecting it for publication.
But I still read every single word. (Even the really long ones!)
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
1/2
Took a two-hour break to eat dinner with my wife, now back to work!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Three pieces so far have made me slap my desk, exclaim "Damn!" and take a big ol' chug of my high-ABV cider.
(This is a good thing, by the way.)
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
I'm about 12% of the way through a first read of all submissions, and I'm having so much fun I'm starting to regret not lifting the cap higher than 77.
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